Enquiries about the Patent Administration System (PatAdmin) should be directed
by e-mail to assist@ipaustralia.gov.au.
While all care has been taken in establishing the database,
the Commonwealth, the Director General and the staff of IP Australia accept
no responsibility for errors or omissions in the database or their consequences,
including any loss which may be incurred as a result of reliance on the accuracy
or completeness of the database. Access to the database is provided only on
this understanding.
The Patent Enquiries system enables you to access bibliographic
and status information about Australian patents and patent applications filed
since January 1979. In some cases details of patents filed before that date
are also available.
The system does not provide access to the patent specification,
patent abstract or the description of the invention.
1. To page through screens, use the "Enter" button.
2. To Exit from display back to the main selection screen, use "F3" button
3. To exit from the Patent Enquiry system, use "F5" button.
At any stage HELP is available by typing a "?". Depending
on the field in which the ? is keyed, specific help for that field will be displayed
(if available).
To access Patent Enquiries, select "Patent Administration" from the menu, by
keying "2" and hitting the "enter" key.
Following selection of "Patent Enquiry System", you
will be presented with a "warning" screen as follows:
The main Enquiry screen allows entry of the search key.
The Patent Enquiry System allows the user to enter one of the following keys:
(For option 6, any twenty characters which do not match any of the above formats
are assumed to be a name.)
1. Enter number in first screen
A summary screen will be shown for the selected record:
Summary Screen
2. To page through all the screens for the record, enter"
XX" in the Option field, and hit "Enter."
3. To go to a specific screen, enter "?" in the Option
field. A list of options will be displayed. Entering the two character code
indicated, will bring up the appropriate page.
Name Searching
Selection of a case
It is assumed that anything entered in the key field
that does not conform to one of the standard numbering formats is a search name.
In the event that you enter a search name, a list of
names will be displayed in alphabetical order.
Marking the name that you are interested in (using any
character) will commence display of a list of all the applications (complete
and provisional) and all the granted patents associated with that name according
to the currently available records on the computer.
Note that the name may be associated with a case as
a past or present applicant, nominated person, or patentee, or as an inventor.
You may display the summary screen for any case by marking it with an "S";
alternatively you may mark it with "P" to print the full details. You may mark
more than one name or application at a time. As each name is checked, an "X"
will appear next to it, to indicate which names do not require re-selection.
An example of a name enquiry follows:
Screen 1 - Selecting a search name
Screen 2 - Displaying a list of names
Screen 3 - Displaying the relevant records
Screen 4 - Displaying the marked application
Name Searching - some hints
Each name is indexed by a Search Name. This is a twenty
character field holding either the surname and initials of an applicant, patentee
or inventor, or the first significant part of a company name. All blank spaces,
variations in case, punctuation, and non-specific parts of the name (eg: "Ltd",
etc) are omitted from the search name, thus allowing the maximum amount of specific
information to be used for searching.
When entering a company name to search by, the name
should be entered as it would normally appear (thus: "ABC Hardware" or "ABC
Hardware Pty Ltd"). Spacing is irrelevant to the search.
When entering a personal name, the surname is entered
first, optionally followed by a semicolon and any initial or given name or names
to narrow down the search (thus: "Smith" or "Smith;J" or "Smith; John D"). Spacing
is irrelevant to the search.
All names which match the string of characters entered
will be listed for selection. If "ABC" were entered, then both "ABC Hardware"
and "ABC Toys" would be listed. If "Smith; J" were entered, then all Smiths
with the first initial J (James, John, etc) will all be listed for selection.
Whilst these rules are generally true, there are some
exceptions, and care must be taken in determining the appropriate "search key".
For example: names such as "David Jones Pty Ltd" may be indexed under "David"
or "Jones". Names such as "The B.F. Goodrich Co" may be indexed under "B.F.
Goodrich" or "Goodrich". To be confident that your search has been complete,
under these circumstances all possible combinations of search key should be
entered.
Note that some personal names may be indexed under the
initials or under the given names.
Care should be taken with such names as CSIRO., which
may be in various formats including CSIRO, C.S.i.R.O., Commonwealth Scientific
..., etc. If the operator entered "CSIRO" then the first two variants would
both be found and listed, but the third would not.
Limiting the Name Search by filing date
It is possible to search through all cases to which
the entered name relates, or to restrict the search to those cases since a specified
date. If you leave the date blank, all cases will be searched, and this is the
default.
Obtaining Prints via e-mail
If you don't have an official IP Australia User ID you
can obtain a print of patent details by selecting the print option and directing
the print to your e-mail address or another e-mail address of your choice.
To submit a request for a print of a patent record, key in the number of the
record you want and select Y in the "Print Details" field and press enter. The
following dialogue box will appear.
Please enter e-mail address:
(eg.)fredsmith@ipaustralia.gov.au___________ |
Type in your e-mail address and press enter. This will submit a batch job in
PATADMIN and the details will be e-mailed to you as a word document that you
can open and print.
This option can also be used while you are searching
by using the "P" option in the screen you may be in. A few of examples of this
are shown below.
Enquire on
Application / Serial Number Concordance
When a complete patent application is filed in Australia,
it is allocated an application number. If and when that application is accepted,
it is allocated a serial number. The following option allows you to enter either
an application number or a serial number, and will display the corresponding
serial or application number.
To access this option, return to selection screen 2,
and select Option 2:
Selection Screen 2
| Patent
Administration Enquiries (External Users)
1. Patent Enquiry System
2. Enquire on Application / Serial Number Concordance
|
Entering and displaying corresponding application and
serial numbers:
| Enquire
On Application / Serial Number Concordance
Application Number : 75524 / 87
Patent Number : 600000
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